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Lot 565

Starting price: 400 CHF
Price realized: 1700 CHF
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SICILY. Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny, 485-466 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 17.01 g, 2 h), c. 485-483. Male charioteer, wearing a long chiton and holding a goad in his right hand and the reins in both, driving a walking quadriga to right; above Nike flying right to crown the horses. Rev. ΣVRΑΚΟΣΙΟΝ Head of Arethusa to right, wearing neck­lace and pearl diadem, and with her hair tied in a krobylos that is bound up and falls over her diadem; around, four dolphins swimming clockwise. Boehringer 45 (V26/R29). Rizzo pl. XXXIV, 10 (same obverse die) and 22 (similar reverse). Struck from beautifully engraved dies. Nearly very fine.

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